Sharp County record., 1887-10-13


TIE National Brewers convention con
cludei its work at 3 It.mor5 on the oh
selected S.. Paul Nina, for the next
meeting and adjourned.
TIE number Of lives lost at the Paris
Opera Comiqus fire is sail to very large. =
exceed that at f st stated, some estimates
being as high as two hundred.
GERMAS ofic.a. circ e5 are very q oLny
over the final report Of Dr.. Nick II e Oh
the Crown Princes ua,ady.
President CLEVELAND AMI party VIII
BE- entertained at Albany b. Governor
Hill on June ).
CHIEF OF Police MCRAE Of Winnipeg
Man, WIS fatally shot o. the night Of tae
3 n by Joe Fdnt, notorious cattle-'hl y
An OPEN switch causeI the wreck OF !,
freight train thirteen miles east OF MlnotI
MINI, on the 26.h Tne engine AMI nine
cars were ditcheI and Engineer Miller
! and brakeman Brainerd we're killed.
TIE boiler of portable mill belonging
to John Craft. located near Leisenr.ng,
Pa. exploded on the 18th, instantly Kill
ing James Naylor and seriously iniuring
the proprietor and a man HameI a eX.
Work Cause Of explosion IS not known.
Ara late hour on the night Of the 10Th
one Of three young men who were a.
tempting to effe It an entrance into IN
house Of Chas. Peak wealthy dairTman
two miles east Of Columbus, o., shot Peak
in the stomach, he having raiseI a win.
dow to look into the yard. Peak IS NOR
tally wounded.
SENATOR JOSEs, of Arkansas, visited the
President on tie 26-h, and pressed the
claims Of that safe to the vacant seat on
the supreme bench.
DR. E. L. MAYsPIELD. one Of the wealth
lest and WI lest known cisiz3ns Of Iowa,
was found dad, sitting upriglt IN his
buggy, the lines in his hand. four miles
out OF Cedar R p.ds, on the morning Of
the 26th. H. was in apparent good health
when he left the city an H)rr earlier
THE Vedder Liquor Tax bill. was passed
by the New York Assembly on the % h..
II now goes ID the Governor, who will IN
doub,edly veto it. The bill divides places
where liquor is sold into two clEs'cs,
namely: Firstcllss, those licensed to sell
liquors Of any kind; second class. those
licensed TO Sc malt IiqIors or wines only.
THE excitement CCca5iOned few days
ago bY the appearance Of yellow fever al
Kew West. F a., was revived on the 10Th
by the death OF a cigarmaker named
Mnden. recently from New York.
NJ. DE FEEYCINET has informed Presi-
dent GreYy that he can not form a cdD:.
net. The presidents Of the three r pub,
lican groups have urged Preside t
Grevv to remove General BOulanger from
office.
Jony CAMPBELL. VI. P, Of Digby Nova
Scotia, was found insensible in his berth
on a sleep.ng-car on its arrivalat Ottawa,
Ont, from Toronto on the 26-h, and died
soon after. The cause was heart disease.
THE first train on the Canadian Pacific
railroad reached the Vancouver ocean
terminus on the 24,h. H thertO trains
stopped at New Westminster. There was
a great celebration over the completion OF
the line.
JouN FALL and wife, residing in Jeffer.
son township, Polk County. Ia, were muir
dered on the night Of the 25Lh and their
home burned. O1ly meager details have
yet been received. The crime was not
discovered until the next morning.
CAPTAIN ". F. DAVIDSON, the million
aire steambOatmau and president Of the
st. Louis & St Paul Packet Company,
died at st. Paul on the evening Of the
10Th, of heart disease resulting n paraly:
sis.
TEE New York Belt Line stables were
turned on the morning of the >7ch, ard fif-
teel hundred horses persisted in thehImes.
1t is feared that there was also some loss
of human life Seventy dwellings were
also burned; total loss over million
dol ars.
The Treasury Department has received
information Of jhe prevalence Of pleurC-
pneumonia to a sOmewhlt alarming eX.
tent in Scotland anon neat cattle. Il
accordance with q Recommendation Of the
Commissioner Of Agr culture, Acting
Secretary Thompson issuel circular to
ustOms officers prohibiting until further
notice, the importation Of neat cattle and
the hides of neat cattle from that country.